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REALLY SO WHAT
What A Time

MY FAMILY

Our paints, and we had a lot of different colors, were all
exterior paints which lent themselves to a chalky finish.

MOM:
Mom, a farm girl from a poor section of north central
Pennsylvania had a dozen brothers and sisters. Her mother
drowned in a flood when she was 13. Leaving her the oldest
at home, so she mostly raised her two younger sisters, Ester
and Elenor.

Everyone in the family went to college, normal school
(teaching ) or business school after high school. Once away
from home they moved all over the country and only returned
for visits. Grandpa was also a stern, no fooling around, man
who probably drove most of them away. At 35 he enrolled in
Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and graduated in it’s
st
1 class, and became the only country doctor for miles around.
Mom went to Business School, in Philadelphia while living
with Ester who graduated from Temple and moved to Illinois.

Stories over the years revealed mom’s personality in her
younger years. She was a high energy scaly-wag, a Tom-boy
that beat up many boys that crossed her. She was tough,
walking miles, to school across the pasture and forest in the
back of the farm, fall winter and spring. She sometimes even
tested her father, and although the woodshed was just in back
of the house, she was difficult to catch.

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